Anyone familiar with these pipes?

**Bugbear** · 20th August 08, 12:57 PM

Nighthawk, make sure your instructor brutally flogs you after each lesson for all the mistakes you make. I don't play the pipes, but I did have music training.

You know there has to be bleeding involved with musical training. You know you're getting good when you have a scar that looks like a tree on your back.

**Nighthawk** · 20th August 08, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Nighthawk, make sure your instructor brutally flogs you after each lesson for all the mistakes you make. I don't play the pipes, but I did have music training.

You know there has to be bleeding involved with musical training. You know you're getting good when you have a scar that looks like a tree on your back.

Actually, I started The Lion Sleeps Tonight. He listened patiently and then told me "Never do that again." We both got quite the laugh out of that.

Originally Posted by georgeblack7

Might I recommend dunbar polypenco pipes? If you're on a budget, it's a cheaper route than African Blackwood.

My instructor actually recomended those to me. I told him I bought a polypenco chanter because I brake stuff, and he told me about poly Dunbars.

**Kiltedfirepiper** · 20th August 08, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

Actually, I started The Lion Sleeps Tonight. He listened patiently and then told me "Never do that again." We both got quite the laugh out of that.

.

yeah ....the lion sleeps tonight sounds kinda boring unless you have two pipers...one playing the " in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tooniiiiight"
and the other playin aweemaway aweemaway aweemaway aweemaway aweemaway aweemaway aweemaway aweemaway

try playing Violent femmes blister in the sun, or watch this Vid of myself and Vinnie (pipe Sgt. for 7 pipers) play it

lets see if I remember how to do this

I know there's alot of people who dont want to hear "modern tunes" or how ever you want to put it, but I could play a Pbroch and no one (except purists) would listen for more than a few minutes.
I play Pink floyd, starwars, the flinstones theme, etc...and they stay....and want more

it all depends on how you look at it

KFP

**Nighthawk** · 20th August 08, 08:43 PM

That was awesome!!

I loved it!

**george7** · 20th August 08, 01:46 PM

Might I recommend dunbar polypenco pipes? If you're on a budget, it's a cheaper route than African Blackwood.

**Kiltedfirepiper** · 20th August 08, 01:49 PM

ok maybe I overreacted a little....sorry...... guess the way i read it I did a knee jerk reaction myself....too many years reading BDF I guess

kfp

**Mr. Woolery** · 22nd August 08, 10:39 AM

KFP- Wow, you've got a chip on your shoulder there!

I've gotten advice from folks who played one instrument (guitar) about how I should play another (bagpipes) and I tend to just ignore it. I have a good friend who seems to just have that natural touch with guitar. He learned it by sitting around and messing with it. Didn't learn it from formal instruction at all. Some folks like that seem to have the idea that anyone can learn any instrument by just picking it up and noodling around until it sounds good. I can't do that with a guitar (I've tried), but my buddy can.

I think what is meant by "non-players" is the loudmouths who seem to think just because they learned to play 4 chords on a guitar with just a book, they are automatically experts on self-teaching music. I notice YOU, KFP, don't tell people to skip the teachers and stick to self-teaching. That's because you have put in the time and effort to learn it without direct instruction and know how much work it is that way. At the same time, there are a heck of a lot of really bad self-taught pipers out there. And you've probably met a few.

And isn't this about the pakistani pipes in the first place?

Here goes: When learning to play any instrument, a good quality instrument is easier to learn on than a bargain basement junker made in or near Asia by anonymous workers who get paid pennies. While it may not be obvious to the untrained eye, minor differences in construction make a major difference in playability. Self taught or not, bagpipes are a lot of work to learn and a good set will mean a better chance of success.

-Patrick

**Kiltedfirepiper** · 22nd August 08, 01:25 PM

Mr. W

its not that i have a chip on my shoulder, but some pipers think that if you dont have a teacher from the get go ...you can't play pipes at all.

also from this thread you'll see that I apologized for what I said and the reason I inturpreted(sp ) it the way I did.

there are quite a few on another forum that will automaticly dismiss someone who is selftaught as "bad for piping" and wont help them try to improve at all.

granted ( and I said this earlier) there ARE quite a few who have no business with a pipe on their shoulder and ( as stated ) I have heard them too.

my MAIN problem with some of the things that were said was it seemed noone was giving their opinion on said pipes...they just said " get an instructor ...let HIM tell you what to get"

stuff like that will just get the person asking the question into more trouble (buying junk) then it would to just answer the question.

to me the term "non-players" in thte context it was written meant self taught
I saw I made a mistake and took care of it.

btw I agree 100% with what you said here

Here goes: When learning to play any instrument, a good quality instrument is easier to learn on than a bargain basement junker made in or near Asia by anonymous workers who get paid pennies. While it may not be obvious to the untrained eye, minor differences in construction make a major difference in playability. Self taught or not, bagpipes are a lot of work to learn and a good set will mean a better chance of success.

have fun, stay safe
KFP